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[bryant]

So this is an experiment.

I like genre-mashing. I also like drawing on the tropes of Western media to give genres a new spin. I also think the Game WISH is the bee’s knees.

Thus, I’m kicking out Monday Mashup as a writing exercise. The format is pretty simple: I’ll toss out a roleplaying game/setting and a piece of pop culture, and you write up a brief rendition of a possible campaign that incorporates ‘em both in whatever unhealthy form you prefer. If people dig it, I’ll keep going, and if not, I will continue to chortle about my weird ideas in privacy.

This week: the forensic scientists of CSI meet Greyhawk. Go!

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[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Not hugely familiar with Greyhawk, though I had written an outline for an adventure a few years ago where the PCs run afoul of Greyhawk's chief tax collector Glodreddi Banakkin (sp?), and he basically blackmails them into helping the Oligarchs find out who is behind a recent smear campaign. Fun stuff. I should dust that off...

However, Planescape's Sigil has always been my favorite urban setting. I was ::THIS CLOSE:: to co-GMing a Planescape game earlier this year with a buddy- it was going to be an amalgam of CSI, The Shield, Law and Order SVU, what have you... the PCs were going to be the Special Crimes Strike Team, all members of various factions, operating outside the juristiction of the usual law and order factions. I was really digging this setting for a cops n' robbers game because it helps level the playing magical playing field in many ways- didn't want the PCs relying on divinations to give them all the answers. Plus all of the possibilites for political intrigue in Planescape are fantastic...

Also, in the Planescape vein: mgrasso ran a really great Sigil murder mystery for our group a few years ago... Sensate prostitutes turning up dismembered, but with no blood or actual wounds on the body parts! It was a great scenario and a really clever use of magic as both a motive and as a murder weapon...